Emma Reardon discusses the difference between her own autistic expression of empathy compared to neurotypical empathy and the role the sensory plays in how we feel and demonstrate empathy.
The same traits that non-autistic people have pathologized in autistics are the ones neurotypicals need to adopt in order to make it through this pandemic while their needs are not being met.
In this era of social distancing, lockdown, and quarantine, our neurotypicals are really struggling. Here are some tips about for caring for your NT.
After a man starts a local autistic social group, he learns a lot about communication differences between autistic and non-autistic people.
An exploration of the source of the division between neurodiversity advocates and the rest of the world and a proposal for common ground.
Fear and skepticism are mounting over growing concerns that seatbelts may be behind the startling allism epidemic that is sweeping the globe.
In prevailing literature, people on the autism spectrum have all of their traits, their behaviors, and even their very existence pathologized. They are considered to
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